We're showing out age! We can clearly remember a major event in New Zealand's history which happened 42 years ago today - the switch from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents.
Yes, 10 July 1967 will be forever etched in our memory. We were in Form One at intermediate school that year, and we were the proud recipients of a certificate signed by none other than the Finance Minister of the day, Rob Muldoon for being a Dollar Scholar, and getting 100% in the decimal currency test. Forgive us for being Clayton Weatherston-like in our recollection, but it was probably the only exam we ever passed with a perfect score!!
And I also remember that we had fish and chips for tea that night, and that the price of a piece of fish had changed from 9d to 8c. The family of five was fed for under a dollar!
So feel free to reminisce today, especially if, like us, you are old enough to remember that day in history. And to put you in the mood, you can even have a listen to the old jingle that appeared on our TV screens, dug up this morning from the Te Ara website. Oh, the memories ...
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I'd just started school when the change over happened so I've been decimal for almost all my life. I'm not sure if we had a TV so don't remember the jingle at all.
Three jugs for under $1 (33c ea) at the Tavistock Hotel in Waipukurau.
The more you drank the more you saved - lol.
Ah, the Tavistock; we know it well! We were a bit young to be drinking beer in 1967, but we can remember the days before the first oil shock in 1974 when you could buy both a jug of beer and and a gallon of petrol, and still have change from a dollar!
I was proabably about 6 mnths short of 21 when I first started going to the Tavi on a regular basis. However, all of the country pubs wrer fair game from when I started playing junior rugby.
All sweet until someone told my father I was in the Onga Onga pub most of a Saturday afternoon. A stern lecture was received.
Under a dollar!
Are you sure?
Yep. A dozen oysters and chips in Lincoln Village were 1/3d
Adam - the first petrol I bought (1972) was 48c/gallon. The first beer I bought in a pub was, from memory, 45c for a jug.
the tenth of july next year
the tenth of july this year
Yes,
I remember those days and the interesting day at the tuck day on the changeover day. Paid 10p for a pie and got 5 cents change.
I was born a couple of days after the UK went decimal and shared a birthday with a lad who narrowly escaped being called "Penny" by being born a boy...
Terrible pun RG, for which I apologise in advance - but was he the full quid?
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